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Complexity-action of subregions with corners

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-03-27 v2

Abstract

In the past, the study of the divergence structure of the holographic entanglement entropy on singular boundary regions uncovered cut-off independent coefficients. These coefficients were shown to be universal and to encode important field theory data. Inspired by these lessons we study the UV divergences of subregion complexity-action (CA) in a region with corner (kink). We develop a systematic approach to study all the divergence structures, and we emphasize that the counter term that restores reparameterization invariance on the null boundaries plays a crucial role in simplifying the results and rendering them more transparent. We find that a general form of subregion CA contains a part dependent on the null generator normalizations and a part that is independent of them. The former includes a volume contribution as well as an area contribution. We comment on the origin of the area term as entanglement entropy, and point out that its presence constitutes a robust difference between the two prescriptions to calculate subregion complexity (-action v.s. -volume). We also find universal logδ\log\delta divergence associated with the kink feature of the subregion. Similar flat angle limit as the subregion-CV result is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09356,
  title  = {Complexity-action of subregions with corners},
  author = {Elena Caceres and Ming-Lei Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09356},
  year   = {2019}
}

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29 pages, 5 figures

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